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The Brussels Post, 1893-4-21, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST, HIS HEIRESS;. LOVE 1•e1 ALWAl^4 THE SAME. CHAPTER I. with a rather heiglttt•necl eo1' r, "But we need not wuste time discussing absurdities. The s that Billy a l,• mooing 1, and nn c r Ii i, v d i . 1F ti,' '� t ll+ 1 I f,.. TG t 1. Mew 1 k I1 t Leri to-u''ht from b�+'•honey-moon,t t 1 fl t l lA and 6 Tr NE." that I vxpeu4 we shall receive but scant In the orchard the sadden burnin min ii civility at her hands, Oh 1 if Marie were g is here to bell, us." "Now, that s a thing that makes me more uneasy than flue'Whig," says ])lett, suddenly growing intense -1y earnest. " eleriers marriage, I mean, Did yon notice her face the day of the wedding? It wan a study. Whitt was there in it Nihon she stood at the altar with Brankslnore 1 \\'as it tertor, or nervousness—or—or hatred?" Margery has brushed a book oft' the table near her w£th an awkwardness foreign to her, and now stoops to pick it up. "Hatred of whom" asks Angelica. Why, that is just it, of course. Of v'hont? Stains was in church, but I should think it was all at an end between Jliin and her, or she wouldn't have nwrried Branks- mere " Yes, I saw Steinee, Considering the marriage was so private, and considering, too, that he had once been a lover of hers, I thought it excessive bad taste his being in church that morning, says Peterslovly. '"Then where does the hatred come in?" asks Angelica, curiously. Margery casts a swift glance at Iter, but the younger girl does not catch it. " Where, indeed ?" says Dick, a little vaguely. "Not for Stains, according to Peter ; and not for Beenhsmere, I—sup- p1)00. " "Let ns keep to the subject in hand, " says Margery, perhaps a little sharply. " How can you all guess and worry about an imaginary ill, when the real thing is so near ?„ What a change it will all be," says Dick, suddenly, as if following out a train of thought. ");illy, who has been so seldom here, now master ; and Margery de- posed from her post ne mistress for an utter stranger. Something tells me we shell be not only the wiser, but the sadder for the coming of this new young woman." "Perhaps she is an old young woman," says Angelica. " Catch Billy doing a thing of that sort," remarks Peter. "Not likely. She's young, you take my word for it. And they say youth is intolerant. Dick, 1 share your uncomfortable presentiment. I feel we have caught a Tartar." Poor old Billy I If that be so there is a pebbly walk before him," nays Angelica, with a sigh. " And when one conies to think of it I believe Billy was the best of us, too. "He was," says Peter, in the subdued tone of one who is coiversing about his beloved dead. " Prem my soul, I'm sorry for him! Marriage with a woman of that sort—at'ir- ago, as I feel sure she is—means eternal misery. Because if you don't murder her by quick means she murders you by slow ones. Billy used to be ns good-natured a fellow as one could ase: to meet. 'What he is now, beneath that woman's influence, I don't pretend to know. Dear old boy ; he has my sympathy at all events. He was always so quiet, so—so—" Here his elo- tjueneereceives a cheek, " \Chat is the weed? So—confound it, "says he--"\VhatI mean is that he was so—so—" "Quite so" interrupts Dick, gravely, " I entirely agree with you, and am sure he was all that and a great ,teal :pore," " 1 wish to goodness Muriel hadn't chosen this time of all others to go and get married," aeys Margery, almost indignantly. " She would have been the correct person to re- ceive them, She is always so calor, and so self.possessed. There is a dignity about Muriel that nothing could ruffle, not even a sister -ht -law who is coming to drive us all into the wilderness." " A rash statement," says Dick, senten• Gouty. " Not a hit of it. Do you think twenty Mrs. Daryls oould make Muriel tremble 1 On the contrary the twenty would tremble before it r." " My dear, pray, spare poor Billy. He is not the anxious proprietor of a harem ; he is afflicted with only ono sultana," "Psitaw I—I'nn not thinking of Billy," says :Miss Daryl, impatiently, " but of :Mur- iel. I wonder you can all be so blind to the fact that she is the on3 who could have coped successfully with thio—this—" "Entr' acte," suggests Dick." " This difficulty. She is the only person I know who never gets frightened or flush• ed by pressure of circumstances ; who defies nervousness. Altogether," cries Margery, with a glow of admiration, "I regard Mur. iel as ooe whoee dignity could not be low• ered," "She must be a phenomenon, then," says Dick, "as I never knew any one whose dig- nity could not be destroyed by a woll•plant- ed blow in the stomach!" This low moil rude pieoe of information is received in utter silence. The twins aro guilty elan ill.tinned attempt at a giggle, but are summarily hushed into asilence befitting the occasion. "Perhaps—after all—Billy,s wife will be nice," hazards Angelica, vag uely. Every body stares, This stunting ouggestion puts Dick's vulgar speech to flight at once. It is 0n more remembered. " Nice? Nonsense ! 'What would make her nice ?"demands Margery. " Did any bosh ever hear of a nice heiress 1 They are all the poorest of poor ureatpros. " No 1" exclaims blanche, breathlessly. " Well, I never knew that before 1 I al, weys thought an Heiress was a person with big bags full of gold." "And 1" " And now you say she is a beggar," sae's the child, excitedly, The poorest of the poor." "May blessings rent upon your verdant head 1" interposes Peter, gayly, " No my good child you are wrong for once. Our heiress is nota beggar." she was a person—a—a no body, al fart, She'll be worse than the usual run of ouldn'tsays who was being paid by two old people (coo- p reds termined misery. Her being sowith ab - sins or something of hers 1 to take care of jsotly poor when Billy first stet her and fell them, and oonsidering Billy, since poor pa. in love with her will only'heighten the arc pa's death, is the head of the house, and replace that I feel certain distiegulebee must be a baronet sotne day, we—we nater. her note•. That. sudden springing n itn a ally thought he should have done better, so we didn't write to her," .fabulous fortune will ntuke her doubly dam- drawing up a warns soft stearal from the moist earth, Already the walks are grow. ing carpeted With the white and pink wealth of the apple -trees that are now so olid turd gnarled as to be venerable. Soft gleams of light tore stealing shyly through the branches, and are clinging tenderly to the ivied walls of the ancient gateway, Everything is so remarkably still thab,the humming of some bees in the tilos. soros near sonde ridiculously loud, and the twittering of the sparrows under the eaves almost oppresstve. "A sense of heavy harmonies" makes itself felt, and every moment the heat seems to grow rnore pronounced. Indeed, this April mu shine is as hot, as languoroue, as though it belonged to its sister of June. Last night the rain fell noisily, the morn. ing as it broke was still washed with it, andthe dawning was dull and sorrowful; but now a full and perfect noon ie et hand, and the air seetns only the sweeter for the refreshing showers that deluged the !tours of darkness. Some straggling rose -trees that are fight. ing herd with the gooseberry -bushes for room to fling wide their arms are, even thus early, covered with red buds; drooping honeysuckles are making gay the gaunt old walls, and over there in the little three. cornered grass plot—that is the joy of An. geliea's heart—a " Lilac's cleating cones bare burst. The milk -white flowers revealing." • There is a bleatint of lambs in the grassy fields below, a sound of quick life in time haggard where the young calves ate assort- ing in the spasmodic awkward fashion that they know. A cry from the lone cuckoo coulee from the dewy woods of Brankstnere far, far below. Nature has roused as last from its long rest ; the world is wide awake; a young and 'happy world, growing honely into a fuller beauty. Flowers are spring- ing beneath the feet, ' And grace and beauty everywhere Arc flushing into life.' Even the gray old house itself, that looks as if centuries of suns have gilded it from time to time, seems to -day to have yielded ooee again to this latest Apollo,and to have grown fresher, warmer, because of his em. brace. Outside the house indeed, all is sunshine. Alas ! inside all is gloom ! They are Bitting, every one of them, in the old school -room, in solemn conclave,. and in a stiff, though unpremeditated, cir- cle. As a rule it is toward this rather dilapidated apartment they always verge when perplexed, or rejoiced. or an. gored about anything. Margery is sitting well forward on her chair with a little an- gry pucker on her pretty forehead. An. gelica, a little slender maiden, with a face that resembles hername, is looking distress. ed ; Petet embarrassed; Dick has taken his sleek head into his hands and is gazing moodily at the carpet, as though bent on piercing the ink stains to flail the original pattern; the twins, sitting side by side in their little dimity pinafores, are plainly ready for open war at a moment's notice. " To think that she should be coming to- night 1" says Margery- at last. Now that Muriel has deserted the home nest and is away on her wedding -tour, Margery, as :Miss Daryl, aeons to have gained a little in dignity. " \Vhen it was a fortmgnt from us it seemed nothing—even a week • ago we could breathe 1- But now --to- night !" "It is terrible. I feel half dead with fright," murmurs Angelica, plaintively-. "\`hat will she do? Send us away?" " bcatter us to the four corners of the earth most likely. Turn ns out of doors without a penny." " Won't she give us anything to eat ?" asks one of the twins—Blanche—in an awe-atrieken tone. She looks at May her twin sister, who is a plump little thing of about eight or nine, with a glance of the deepest commiseration. She herself is delicately fat too, toad indeed the children are so alike in all respects, .. thatwithouta distinguishing mark it would at times be impossible to know one from the other. Dormer the old nurse, hes sought to solve this mystery by the means of two Tittle ribbons, ooe white, one pink, to be fastened somewhere on their frocks each morning. Bat what is easier to the frolic. some twins than to change their beds at night, when Dormer is loudly- snoring, and confound by this means their identity in the morning? To.day, for example, by this simple devioe, Blanche is May and Slay is Blanche. They are ingenuous children, end their countenances do not conceal the fact that they are in a frame of mind distinctly hopefnl, anything in the shape of a row �' ...bei"sweet to their souls. "Not so muoh ass crest," says Dick, the second brother, lifting his pale student face from hie hands to gaze at the children with brilliant eyes, in which a (plaint gleam of • mirth is always shining. ' Gut you'll go supperless. Ohwhat a little time Ices between you and utter destitution. The day is far spent. Soon the night will be here, and with it our unknown but ogreish sister-in-law. Poor little May and Blanche, I pity you I" "It won't be worse for us than for you," says Blanche, indignantly. But Dick has gone back to hie original position with his head in his hands. Perhaps he is enjoying the situation a little I "So odd, hot never writing us a line," eaye Margery. "I argue from that that eke ie sore to be a distinctly ditficultperson." " But perhaps if we— Did any of us write to her?" asks Angelica, nervously, " Certainly not 1 Why should we ?" de. mantle Margery. " When drat Billy wrote to say be was engaged to her, we learned L ora e. •"And now the tables are turned," says There is a0 much grim protnasticatiott in Pater, stretching hie long arms lazily, His tone that Margery''s heart dies within and she is the Cru,sua, and we the poor her. o0nttections, Well, I should think ehe'd "Oh, that it wtoe to -marrow morning 1" remember it all, I'm rather repentantttow she cries pathetically. Upon her, as Miss see didn't write." " Things Daryl, will fail the horrors of having to ngs aro different now, of course, make g a gracious display of w•eleomc. Thee she was—goodness knows who—now "I wonder when she becatno rich she she proves to be fieneral Orrtaereder nie,r-e, didn't throw $illy over with a vices of gain - and has 001110 in for a tremendous fortune ing a more distinguished parts," some one is . by his death." saying when she brings herself back from Why couldn't Billy hove given ns e her dismal imaginings It is Angelica who ]tint? murmurs Angelleee Or, why didn't fa speaking, and her s peed:, severing as it wo wri10 afterward," does rn an ashit sort a f way of a wish to Booaus° we were ashamed," guessed take the part' 1 the new'ootrer, is received ono of the twine pronptly, and Angelica is with atnarked diefsvor. , instantly crushed. "1 dere new she we al:;,,r'ed! 4'l:ings Hobo iy is o=ilseed eays iargery, hell gone to far with her and Li;.:," says Meter, who, thnngh as a rule careless of his m. a o' neighbor's h rtumuinga, nuerurd deter• mined to find feeule with the new sister Unmet upon him, "]But l expeot why she didn't 1 tore evetytbiug, even the w0t•Itl'5 censure, naw because Billy tttnst get old frumpy's title sooner or later. And a title isdear to the scull of the parvenue," 'Sec t he called t Peter. ap- pears; an called that r. It P curs alio is 1 well lore of us, But ut �. her lather 1158 n poor that-•- Well, yes. 'hull's so, of cameo," ae, knowledges Peter, mag»anantnnsly. "I3ut what I mean 1s thatshe wanted to be 'my lady,' " Grumpy' is geed for many a year yet." "I hope ere until I can take my degree at all events. .1 ean't say' I Admire Sir Mulles as a private individual, but as an uncle who can pay my college fees, he le— pretty well." Sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless ehittl, quotes Dick, mournfully. " I'm two. Inc Mild, the gods be praised," returns Peter stretefting himself lazily. " Has a serpent got a tooth?" asks fat little .May, with round open eyes and won- derment. I thought they mocked every- thing !" " I know one serpent that has lots of teeth," responds her youngest beother,wdth calm betet'itsltingforce. " Regular molarel" —this last word seems full of doubt, and horrible suggestiveness to the listening play —"and it is corning here to -night." " Don't be filling her poor little head with nonsense, Dick," says Angelica,softly, "I don't know how Sir Matins oould be poor tnamma's brother," poudere elargery, "One—ao soft, so sweet, so perfect—the other --ugh 1" She purses up her pretty mouth into a regular Ola 1" of disgust. "He looks so commonplace," continues Angelica, "so vulgar. Ho says his lineage is abeve reproach, and the title certainly is old—bat Mumnt. Was there ever such a name? It suggests nothing but trade and champagne." "Tell it int so 1" "Thank you! I don't want my head in my hernia' "What a combination the entire name is. Sir 'abides Mumm 1 I'm certain our mater- nal grandparent was a wit, and gave the Christian name to his only son as an heir. lootn." Margery leans back in her chair us she says this, and forgetful of the coning misery laughs aloud. Such a gay, pretty, whole- hearted laugh! Itdoes one good to hear it. "Is it possible that I can hear you jest with such trouble staring us in the face?" says Dick reproachfully. "Think of to- night and what it is bringing you." "It will bring Billy too, though, says Blanche, with a touelt of defiance in her childish treble. "Billy won't let ber touch us." Site has evidently great faith to the eldest brother. "$illy, indeed 1 I expect we shall have to call him William now," deolares Margery, gloomily. At this Blanche gives way to a sudden, irrepressible ' sense of amusement and chuckles very loudly. " Fancy calling hilly—William 1 Oh 1 it's uottsense, stuffy nonsense. 'Good morn ing, William,' '—putting on a grown-up air—" `I trope to see you well, William 1' Ha, ha, ha ! I never could do that. I don't care what his wife says, 111 always call hint Billy. Why, he doesn't look like anything else." " Wait till Mrs. 13111y hears you. She'd be as "tad as a ]tatter if she heard socio a disrespectful. frivolous terns applied to her husband 1" "If aloe is," murmurs Angelica. patting the twin's dimpled hand reassuringly "we'll tie her 1" At this tine -honored joke they every one laughed in a body, with all youth's tender - noes for an ancient friend, as though it was the ft eshesi in the world. "Mrs. Billy," repeats Margery softly from the leer seat near the fire. "Ah ! how I wish she was sotne one who might be call- ed that, It would so settle things." "Don't delude yourself with false hopes. I'm certain, 13lanuhe, if ,you persist in play ing the fool with those straws and the fire, you'll see yourself presently at an untimely and, and I don't suppose our new relative will be pleased to find the house redolent of roasted pork on her arrival." "Peter I don't be horrid." "Oh ! yes ; it is quite true," cries May, excitedly. "1 read the other day that Mr. Mongoose, the African explorer, declared human flesh was quite—finite—that is—he said we were all pigs," "May 1 If you will road abominable things of that sort please keep them to yourself. Oh ! dear, bow the twilight is coming, soon it will be night, and then—I don't in the least know how I shall receive her." "Throw your arms around her tech. Press her to your throbbing boo-o-som, Break into sympathetic sobs, and eery, 'Sweet sister, how glad I am to welcome you to these ancestral halls.'" " Not if I know it," exclaims Miss Darryl, indignantly. "I think I see myself, in - deer V. Very silly of you, my clear ; there isn't a looking -glass within a mile of you, so far as I know," "I wonder if site will be big?" twitters May, who is rather irrepressible, alluding to the unknown Ides. Daryl. "Huge 1" replies Dick, promptly. "A regular strapper 1 Stands five foot eleven in her vamps. And walks about the farm all day long in top•boots and leggings, and a oart•whip with which she lays about her generously. There is one small psouliarity, too, in our new sister whiolt may be men. Monad," continues Dick, leaning oonfiden. tially' toward the somewhat disconcerted twin. "She can't bear little girls! Any sort of girl is obnoxious to her, but little ones drive her into a fine frenzy. I have heard from reliable authority that she could willingly—nay, eh—Ay—flay theta alive?" " Oh, Dick 1" nye May, whimpering sadly, ".Fact, 1 assure you, Pm awfully sorry for you and poor Blanche, but I don't see ]tow I oao help you. I doubt there's a bac] time before you," "Riehard—to hastiness 1" interrupts Margery, shortly, "You'll give that child softening of the brain if you persist in your %resent evil courses, I ata eore, too, it is foolish to (e eo downhearted. Billy will see we are not altogether flung upon the world." "I dare say, But madam will see that WO march, uo'ortheloss. She will hardly lilte to have so many guests perpetually in her house." "Who est blame her? I shouldn't like it either," murmurs Margery, sighing, "Per. 'tape she will effeot a compromise, and pro. pogo keeping the oltildren hero with her," At this hopeful prospect the twins; with- out a word of warning, sot ftp it dismal howling, I)ielt's pasture is still fresh 'ie their ntittrls. They dissolve Mtn floods of 103,0s, and at" with tliffietdty even so far re- stre,] ea to be able to give u cause fol flit hr grief, • "Oh, Meg !" coy they , singing thettnselvee bodily upon elareers,}aur,ut'tlo it, You know you ol to t :to it ! Oh ! don't leave us behind you. If you must g" tithe us with you, Don't leave lie -done with her. Don't give es up to that awful big woman with the eert•wbip," Their wailing is ldteous, and rattler Op. Ps re sive What a nutaun'n ver, are, Diets," gays Peter, impatiently, i1RBpz filling hoods of those silly ehlltlrcu with melt folly." " Nn --'no, cleat' little rats, we will ail go together," :Margery 18 sayIngsoothingly to the 11.150. It is plain to everybody that she is very nearly 00 the brick of tears herself. "Oh 1 why are we not more fortunate or more rich 1" she sighs, "I shouldn't care to be rich. I should like to be famous,' says Dirk, slowly. " 1 shouldn't este to be either•. Extremes are a bore, I only ask to he oomfortabie," puts in Peter, with another lazy yawn. Even Criesns had his troubles. Money goes but a short way," 1' With conte people, certainly," laughs Angelica. On the road to happiness, I would have added, my sweet angel," says I'eter. "It's poor stuff, when all is told,' "Is it? I should like to have a trial of it," returns elargery dryly. But Peter is not listening to her ; its is instead caroling at the top of his fresh young budge a terse in favor of his merry theory Then why should we quarrel forrlehes, Or any such glittering tors Alight heart and n titin pair of breeches, Will go through the world, my brave boyo! "I don't think that's a nice song, Meg, do you?" abks Blanche who has hardly yet recovered from the late storm. "And I shouldn't like a thin pair of breeches when eve start—would you? Because winter will be coming on, and we should be cold." This infantile touch of caution convulses Peter with delight, "What shall we do when first she is cross to us, Meg?" asks Mary nervously, whose thoughts are still upon the "big woman," "Fall upon her and rend iter limb from limb," suggests Dick, severely. "Sprite her, hip and thigh," supplements Peter. "I wish Tommy was here," says Mar. gery, suddenly, Though only a cousin, and quite the greatest foot I know, still he is a sort of person that one can speak to." "Or even Curzon," murmurs Angelica. " By the bye, I wonder he hasn't been !fere ail day ?" "I don't see what good he would be ex• cope to sit in Meg's pocket and scare at her as if she had seven heads." "He doesn't sit in my pocket," returns Mies Daryl, indignantly, "I never heard suoh a libel !" " Even if be did he might sit in a worse place," says Angelica, sweetly. " Alt ! talk of somebody," cries 0'I"rnery, quite forgetful of her ill -temper of a ince ment since. " Why, there he is—ootning across the lower lawn. 1'11 call him. Ho hasn't heard a word about their coming to. night." She runs to the wiodov, pushes the ease. ments wide, and makes a wild effort to at. tract the attention of the tall figure in the distance. "Curzon ! Curzon ! Hi 1 :lir. Bellew ! Drat him 1I don't believe he bas got an ear in his silly head," says Miss Daryl, who is not particular as to the nicety of her lan- guage when immersed in the boson of her family, " Cur—zon 1 Curzon ! I say 1" " Elegant language ! Superfine, upon my word," says gruff voice at this moment. Does it conte from heaven or the earth be. tteeth ? A balcony runs outside the school- room, extending from it to the library. and 1 over this balcony the voioe seems to cone. '"It's Crampy Himself 1" exclaims Meg, in a horrified tone, falling back into Peter's arms, Uncle Muthts 1" whispers Angelica, " Then mum's the word," says Dick, throwing himself hurriedly into the nearest chair. The heavy sound of pottering old foot- steps, the thud of a stout stick, and now —Grumpy 1 (To tin CONTINt'xto,) HEALTH, Mush) as a Substitute for dttedioine• The movement for using mesio instead ntehieitte in many contplainte, especially nervous Cages, ie rapidly gaining streug In Louden. At its head is the ' Guild St.o • its eb'eots: to Ila " which hoe for r ( e tvhl obi cote: 1 ']14 large number 1 "o by u t I i 1 tett, trials made t 4 cases of illness, the power of snit mash: induce e11110nene of maul, alleviation of pa Rod sleep. (in To provide a large needier of specially trained nmeiolans, who shall he in readiness to answer promptly the sum- mons of a physician, a31 'I'o provide a large ]lull in a central part of London, in which tnusio shall he gtvmt throughout all hours of the day and night, this mule to be conveyed by telephone at. Melted to certain wards in esuli of the chief London hospitals. Tho question as to whether or not nnisio should be regards odasone ofthe remedial agents upenwilah physicians can confidently rely hes Leen disoussed by Dr. Blaokman in the Jlrrii. real Mat/aah.. Ile ma!ntei ns that the ef- fect of mule is transmitted by a reflex au. tine of the nerves wltiolr govern the supply of blood. 'Pilo blood vessels are thus dilat• ed, and the blood more freely and the sense of warmth is increased, Byino'oased blood supply nutrition is ended ; there- fore, for the improvement of stealth, which depends upon nutrition, the musician is an indispensable ally of the physician, Dogiel, a Russtaa physician, in classifying, atter numerous exirerhnents, the physiological effects of music, shows that it exhibits to marked influence on the circulation of the blood, and the rise and fall of the blood pressure. The /lotion of musical tones on nub mals and teen expresses itself for the most part by increased frequency of the beats of the heart. The variattotts in the circulation eonsegnent upon musket sounds coincide with changes in the breathing, though they Wray also be observed quite Independently of it. The variations in the blood pressure are dependent on the pitch 0011 loudness of the sound and on the tone color. In the variations of the blood pre.esare thepeculiar. ities of the indivirluals, whether men or lower animals, are plainly apparent ; and even nu tionality in the case of man has some effect. The practical effect of tiro operations of the Cecelia Guild has been that music produced general tranquillity, and sent over 50 per cent, of he patients to sleep. In one infirm- ary' in seven out of ten patients the effect of the music was to reduce the temperature and also the pain from which they suffered. An attractive remedy for insomnia is sug- gested by Dr. Blackman in tete shape of a musical box worked by an electric motor'. Even non -enthusiasts now concede that much may be done in alleviating the pain and sufferings of the siuk in hospitals by the judicious employment of ,male. til'lilh 21, 1af1., expressed it the tl 1 ( tillers C but untruthfully e uf I (le/Pelage,"'Chd. tip that thlrl•s but not ittebl hdtt s "ls pt ob 461y resp m ibl" foe more of than ally Other for tIlewilt Nero:el employe menu of these huge, which the phy'sio!o ist tat well 1t:1014'8 are po'.essed of tits ntcive print tit cipie farm ore potent ne an intnxivatine. of agent than fs,ticohol, Indeed, we have 1 1 +h u.• t ern ,• rd mid we believe upon good often t4ssett u i of t 6 e strong t' u•P, e t tee t .l grounds, n n u) t t . Rae to 1 that, 6 1 !� in is tapable rat predueing a higher degree df intoxication than an equal quantity of lager beer; that. le, a smaller nunnl>er of ellpa of strong tea or ccllre. w'Onid be required to render a person thoroughly inloxloated than would he required of lager beer. The following account of coffee demises: - noes i:era:a from the »ass In . anti Alt. c , pen of Fanny 13, Ward, we quote train oantent- perary journal :— "I have often impel it reur,lIted (hat there is no drunkenness in 13ratzil, but the statement is untrue, not, perhaps, 80 far as alcoholic drinks tune concerned, but the 1111010 country is perpetually in u state of eemi•intoxicatiun on coffee, sten, women, and children alike, and to babies in arms it is fed from a spoon. It is acomnton saying among Brazilians, that coffee to be good must be,,e'black as night, blttet'as death, and hot as ]tell,' and at all hours of the day and night, in season and out, everybody lit- erally guzzles it—made according to the proverb. The effect is plainly apparent in trembling bands, twitching eyelids, mmn- my-hued shin, and a citrouie state of none ons excitability worse than that produced by whiskey. Aro you overheated in time noonday tun or chilled by the clews of the evening; are you wearied or blue, or sof. tering from bodily pain or homesickness ; coffee is the Brazilian's unfailing panacea, as the Chinese turns to his opium, and the toper to Itis toddy, It is brought to your bedside tate instant you are awake in tete morning, and just before you are expected to drop off to sleep at night, at steals and between meals, and whenever a caller copses in—always Meek as night, bitter as death, and hot as shoot. Connected with of the theaters is a garden or cafe, to which the people repair between every act to per. take of ices, confectionery, wines, and coffee of course." A New Oure for Consumption. The introduction of the antiseptic treat. meat of wounds by Sir Joseph Lister is still a matter of modern history, and the enor- mous advantages which have accrued from the use of carbolic quid in surgical dress- ings, and the bleasinge which have followed on itis successful method of preventing the putrefaction of wounds' are universally me- ktuwledged, Tho idea of utilizing antiaep- ties in lung disease has not hitherto, how. ever, been reduced to a practical system. Dr, J. J. Hartnett has just made public his newmetbod of treating pulmonary consump. tion by the inhalation of antiseptic dry air, combined with a rational system of hygiene and special diet. The merit of this system is mainly due to the clever way in which the latest discoveries of other scientists have been sifted and reduced to pruetioe by is author, The failures of the poet are Hollis and impartially explained. 1)r. Hart • tette/Iowa why inhelations of steam or spray as means of conveying medicaments to tho respiratory tracts have proved useless in their relation to pulmonary consumption to pointe to the dangers attendant on the treatment of Prof, Koch, and who it failed in practice ; and he also refers to the lam. eatable results which followed on the old system of treating consumption by means of expectorant and other mixtures which, though taken into the stomach, never reach. ed the lung cells, the real seat of the disease. Following up these arguments, and clearly xplaining the nature of the bacilli—the lying germs which cause the disease—and Ile peculiar products known to scientists as toxinea, which they exorete, Dr.Hartnett goes on to describe how these toxines, which are thrown off by the bacilli in the unge, are the poisons which, when they are absorbed into the system, are the real cease f the symptoms peculiar to pulmonary onsemplion. To destroy the bacilli in tits ungs, as well as the toxines they excrete, he patients are submitted to a system of onstant inhalation of dry air, charged to ie ftilleet extent with volatile extracts die. tiled from the Alpine pine, the eucalyptus loboius, or Australian guns tree, 1100011, reosote, menthol, and other preparations f a highly volatile nature and known as ntiseptio ; that is to say, they have the ewer of destroying bacteria or low forms f animal life, and of oxidizing the products which they throw off. The method of effecting this purpose is highly ingenious. he, instruments used ere of three kinds, he first is an apparatus oomposed of filter ng and medicating Glides, with a fan and e,trie motor, which charges the mitalation bombers with the volatile antiseptic es. anus, The second is a compressed dryair Mater, devised for the purpose 01 home in alations, so that patients can sit for hours ally blowing a constant blast of antiseptic it into the lungs during deep inspiration. he third is a neat contrivan oe in the form of pocket inhaler, shaped like a cigar, by Welt those convalescent, or not suffering ery uetttoly, can keep up the inhalations tie of doors, or when attending to their rdivary avocations. The effects of the eetment are said to be very marked. iter eight or ten days the patient loses the sling of lassitude end depression from hich aonsutnptive invalids usually stiffer, he expectoration diminishes, the cough oon snbsidee, and there are oases now on eoord of peroons who are absolutely free tom every sign or symptom of lung trouble td in the enjoyment of good health, who were but a short time ago considered hope- lessly Malleable cases of consumption. One of the greatest recommendations of the system is that it is perfectly safe,n y t p y and can not harm the most delicate constitution. Spacial ohambere are new fitted up, Marg. ed with the dry antiseptic air, in which pct. tionts sit for hourslaity. In the Gehihelation chambers there is artificially prodttoecl what`nature does on a large scale in the pine and eucalyptus forests, and it is an in. disputable fact that patients suffering from eonsnmption do better auuirl such surround• lugs, where the disease is never met with, than they do under any other elbnatie con., ditians. A large proportion of 04808 re- cover in the euealyptus groves of Australia, and in the pine woods of Colorado and British Coluutbia. FISHERIES PROTECTION. The Fleet lit Canadian Waters TIiis Vent. t Witt Consist of Seven Crullers. An Ottawa despatch says :—In Western Nova Scotia and along the shores of the Bay of Fundy the harbors are already white with the sails of the fishing beet, and as 0 soon as the last of the icefloeshave drifted out 0 of the gulf of St. Lawrence the fishermen all along the coast of the maritime provinces t will be afloat for the season of 1853. The 0 vanguard of the American mackerel catch- t era are about due in Canadian waters also, t and with their arrival the duties of the Do. mimion fishery cruisers will commence. The g protection fleeb will this year consist of 0 seven cruisers. The schooner Vigilante, a Capt. Knowlton, now in the harbor at Steel. p Burne, N. S., and will be putt in oommles(on o o1 thel5th inst. The swiftschoonpr King• fisher,Capt. Ken t,is fitting out at Shelburne, N. S., and will go in commission on the let T of June. The steam meteor Acadia the T ilugnhip of the fleet, will again be command- i act by Lieut. Spain. R. N., and will be conesel missiuned about the end of May. The 0 steamer Curlew, Capt. Pratt, is now on duty s in the 13ay of Fundy. The Stanley, Capt. 1 Finlayson, rat present running between h Pictou and Charlottetown, will be commis. d stoned es a cruiser in Juno. The steamer La a Canadioune, Capt. Belanger, is fitting out T at Quebec: and will be ready to patrol the a Gulf and Labrador coasts on the 1st of May. w The fishery steam cruiser Petrel is still v at Owen Sound in the builder's hands, o When takbn over by the Governinent she o will be used to protect the lake fishcriee. tr The survey steamer Bayfield, also at Owen A kound, will be employed again this summer se on the Georgian bay survey. Staff Commander Boulton, le. N., who t has had charge of this work for years, $ is about to return to England, having r concluded his term of servieo with the In Dominion Govornment. at Getting the Mitten. A contemporary thee explains the phrase getting the mitten": One hundred years ago gloves were unknown in the country towns. Mittens wore icnitted and worn in all families. If a young man going Crone from singing school with the young girl of his 01toiee was holding her mittotied hand to keep ib from getting cold, and tools that opportunity to urge his suit, if the offer proved aoeoptablo the hand would remain. If taken by snrprieo un effort to withdraw the hand would leave the mitten, So the miter would " gee the mitten,' but would not get the land, The ass of the word " mull';' meaning a foolish, blundering per. sort, also twee an easy explanation. A stupid youth was said to be a "r muff," became, Bice the article of feminine wear called by that name, he hold a woman's hand with. optsqueezing it, The sedate cid tinl(•e Were not without their gallantries, Corsa Drunh:snnass. The idea that tea unci cotl'oe are hemline Mem Manta, or exhllerante, alt poetically What Causes Gray Hair. " Orae hair is so common now," said a limber the ether day " tltat one wonders what it eines from. -Young men have it in profusion, and young women are very proud when they have a coiffure in which gray has aprominent part. I attribute the prey- alence of gray hair to frequent cutting awl soap. The doctors speak of inherent tend- encies, and old women gabble of early piety, but, soap and the barber do mere toward taking color and strength out of hair titan anything else. " The singeing of hair is done to prevent the oils from exuding from the ends of clipped hairs, and singeing is in this regard bettor. But ammonia•loaded soaps are the worst factors. Many, persons use amtnonie when washing their head, and it enters into all shampoo mixtures. It is also an inur'- dient of most soaps. It dries up the scalp and robs the hair of all its moisture. That is where the most of the gray hair of to-d.ty comes frost:," MEN FIFTEEN INCHES HIGH. WWhat n I'tvrnrtt Stat(e(j, (at Sloss will the Sect sn Larch 111, 3,aett. Venn. A French statistician who has been study ing the military anti ocher records with a view of determining the height of men at different periods, has reached some wonder- ful results. He has not only solved sone perplexing problems in regard to the past of the human race, but is also enabled to circulate its fume and to determine the exat period when man will disappear front the earth. The recorded facts extend over nearly three centuries. It is found that in 11110 the average height of man in Europe was 1.75 metres,or say S feet 0 inches. In 1 110 11 was 5 feet 0 inches. In 15x:0 it was 5 feet 5 inches and a fraction. At time present time it is 5 feet 1 inches. It is easy to deduce from these figures a rate of regular and gradual decline in human stature, and then apply this, working backward and forward to the past and to the future. By this calculation it is determined that the stature of the first then ettasned the surprising average of 16 feet 9 incites. Truly there were giants on the earth in those days. The raeehed already deterior- ated in the day's of Og, and Goliath woe a quite degenerate offspring of the giants. Coming down to later time, we find that at the beginning of ottr era the average height of ratan was 9 feet, and iu the time of Charle- magne it was S feet 8 inches. But tete most astonishing result of this scientific study comes from the application of the same inexorable law of diminution to the future. The calculation shows that by the ,year 4000 A.D. the stature of the average man will be reduced to 15 inches. At that epoch there will he only Liliputians on the earth, And the conclusion of the learned statistician is irresistible ; that " the end of the world will certainly arrive, for the inhabitants will have become so small that they will finally disappear "—"finish by disappearing," as the French idiom ex. presses it— 'from the terrestrial globe." TRE B1,UE OF THE .HEAVENS. it is Pretty Tlolsi.Isle lisoeelsn.„ Flys. Mils is lle1i2st. "1 do not Dare to dispel pleasing Musicale for anyone," said Mervin Page to a 91. Louis Giobe. Democrat man, "btttsometitttes the fact is of deoided interest. I wonder, if the Emote about the ethereal blue were gen- erally known, would it seem less ethereal or give less joy to the poetio nature to look at? People imagine that all the beyond le light, and that they might rise away from the earth up and ever up, always surround- ed and overhung by the gorgeous canopy of blue which Rlis the dullest nature with su- preme satisfaction of a bright, sunny morn- ing. The blue of heaven itas been the theme of poetic literature ever since the world began or shepherds tended sheep on the hillsides. As a matter of fact the blue WO see isonl a ❑ ooh leap when compared d With the earth. It as not of the sky or of infinite spate, but, of the air we breathe, that is Mom A small portion of ahr is color- less, but when we look out through forty- five ni.lee of it, we have the heavenly blue, which is its distinct. color. Anyone who Inas ascended eve utiles above • the earth'n surface end has looked heayanward remora. hers that the eicy appears of a dark inky hue, and the higher one might go the black, er would become the surrounding space, until utter darkness would envelop one at the height of tltirty•eight miles up. This darkness restate from the lack of reflection and dispersion of light. At the height even of five niton one may look clown and cob - servo that the bine Is below' and net alcove, da 08 the bottom. Still the blue is just ea beautiful as before, and sitter we live under it we may well a&Toed to enjoy it,"